BFI FILM SEASON
No Regrets for our Youth
No Regrets for Our Youth / Akira Kurosawa/ 1946/ 1hr 50 mins/ subtitles/ PG
Yukie is a young woman living in 1930s Japan, unaware of the political changes happening around her. She is shocked into reality when her father, a professor, has to resign for preaching anti-fascist views. More aware of her own world, Yukie falls in love with one of her father’s students.
The BFI's Too Much: Melodrama on Film project is possible with support of the BFI Film Audience Network, awarding funds from the National Lottery to bring this project to more audiences across the UK is possible with support of the BFI Film Audience Network, awarding funds from the National Lottery to bring this project to more audiences across the UK
Heightened emotions, sideways glances and strong shadows, drive the emotional and expressive weight in these Japanese melodramas
Conflicts between the modern and traditional where displays of respect and decency are expected. These films capture where dress codes shift, and women’s values and freedom are challenged.
Other screenings as part of this special programme:
Doors & bar open at 6pm, film starts 6.30pm.
Affordable refreshments available on site as well as a selection of Japanese snacks and cups of warming miso soup.
Fabrica
40 Duke Street, Brighton
BN1 1AG
“Even now a sobering, ennobling experience, the film remains a rebuttal to those who say Kurosawa didn’t understand women”
